Highlights the development, implementation, operation, and future of an interdisciplinary, environmental education (EE) program at an inner urban, multicultural, comprehensive school for 1,000 students 11- to 18-years-old. A list of special EE projects and extra-curricular activities is included. (JN)

The Piedmont Opera Company embarked on opera productions in two junior high schools, involving professional performers with students and faculty. School members sang in the chorus, danced, and acted in walk-on roles. Many departments besides music took part in the varied aspects of the production. (CS)

Describes the development and offerings of North Shore Community College's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, which uses a variety of organizational and methodological strategies including team-teaching, multi-discipline courses with one instructor, thematic courses, and discipline combinations. Describes the 15 courses in the curriculum and…

A framework is suggested for an environmental education course of study integrated with a social science program. (KM)

Author presents a representative sampling of worthwhile materials that are available and which were chosen to show variations in the tools used in environmental education programs. (Author/CB)

Describes methods of organizing an interdisciplinary program designed to study the techniques of finding out" used in science, literature, language, humanities and the arts. Suggests possible topics that might serve as subjects for seminars and provides references that could support such studies. (AL)

Environmental problems are complex and attempts to solve these require expertise from many areas. Authors describe strategies evolved to solicit cooperation from fifteen departments in a university, city government, and a regional planning agency for solving environmental problems. (PS)

An instructor-designed course to help industrial arts students express themselves in reports and in day-to-day business or industrial communications. (GR)

Philosophy and objectives of the Wave Hill/Fordham University Environmental Education Program are recounted. Use of a teacher-training workshop provides on-the-job experience both in teaching methods and factual information related to the environment. (BL)

A term paper on a science theme was used to achieve goals common to both science and English programs in a rural school. (AL)

Current training efforts used to prepare students of medical sociology to function in a changing professional environment are described. Crucial to this effort is the internship--that real-world experience where the students can learn the accommodative strategies needed to maximize interdisciplinary ties without loss of their identities as…

The At-Risk Parent Child Program is a multidisciplinary network agency designed for the secondary prevention of poor parenting and child abuse and neglect. The model emphasizes coordination of existing community resources, provision of multiple special services in a neutral location, and intensive individual contact with a clinical professional.…

Insufficient awareness exists of the variety of social and cultural factors that form the context of ecological research and determine its significance. Proposes dialogue between natural and social sciences through integrating different sociocentric research approaches into a comprehensive research plan without bureaucratic or disciplinary…